Individuality Quotes

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.

I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

I like individuality in fashion - it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are 'style icons.'

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.